Obama was the fourth U.S. president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, after Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919)—both of whom received the award during their terms—and Jimmy Carter (2002), who received the award 21 years after leaving office. In addition, then-sitting Vice President Charles Dawes was a co-winner with Austen Chamberlain (1925), …

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity.It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic), and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic).The concept has been mostly applied to Europe and the Ancient Near East, but also, by analogy, to other parts of the Old World.. The duration of the Iron Age varies depending on …

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI; officially the "Middle East Media and Research Institute") is a nonprofit press monitoring and analysis organization co-founded by former Israeli military intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser.Headquartered in Washington, D.C., MEMRI publishes and distributes free English …

Assyria is the homeland of the Assyrian people; it is located in the ancient Near East. In prehistoric times, the region that was to become known as Assyria (and Subartu) was home to Neanderthals such as the remains of those which have been found at the Shanidar Cave.The earliest Neolithic sites in Assyria belonged to the Jarmo culture c. 7100 BC and Tell Hassuna, …

Saddam Hussein Abed al-Majid al-Tikriti (arabiska: صدامـ حسينـ عبدالمجيد التكريتي, ṣaddām ḥusayn ʿabdu-l-maǧīd al-tikrītī), ofta kallad enbart Saddam, född 28 april 1937 i byn al-Auja nära Tikrit, död 30 december 2006 i Bagdad (avrättad genom hängning), var Iraks ledare, president och diktator från den 16 juli 1979 fram till april 2003.

This is a list of modern conflicts in the Middle East ensuing in the geographic and political region known as the Middle East.The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran.It currently encompasses the area from Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf …

The Trump peace plan, officially titled "Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People", was a proposal by the Trump administration to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Donald Trump formally unveiled the plan in a White House press conference alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 28 January 2020.

The Dom (also called Domi; Arabic: دومي / ALA-LC: Dūmī, دومري / Dūmrī, Ḍom / ضوم or دوم, or sometimes also called Doms) are a people with origins in the Indian subcontinent which through ancient migrations are found scattered across Western Asia, North Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Eastern Anatolia Region, and parts of the Indian subcontinent.

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 American documentary film directed, written by, and starring filmmaker, director, political commentator and activist Michael Moore. The film takes a partisan-liberal, critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, and its coverage in the media.In the film, Moore contends that American corporate media were "cheerleaders" for the 2003 …

General. Geographically, the Middle East can be thought of as Western Asia with the addition of Egypt (which is the non-Maghreb region of Northern Africa) and with the exclusion of the Caucasus.The Middle East was the first to experience a Neolithic Revolution (c. the 10th millennium BCE), as well as the first to enter the Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BC) and Iron Age …